errand

Definition

A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.

Etymology

From Middle English erande, erende, from Old English ǣrende, from Proto-West Germanic *ārundī (“message, errand”).

Example Sentences

• "What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?"
• "Few have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent. In this evil hour I have come on an errand over many dangerous leagues to Elrond: a hundred and ten days I have journeyed all alone."
• "The errands before he could start the project included getting material at the store and getting the tools he had lent his neighbors."